Second-half substitute Clinton Kinanga needed two minutes on the pitch to strike the winning goal, sending Kenya Police to the Mozzart Bet Cup round of sixteen following their 1-0 win over Posta Rangers at the Police Sacco Stadium.Thrown in to make the Rangers’ defense busy and probably attack the aerial balls floated in the area, Kinanga connected a lovely cross from Abud Omar in the 85th minute to win the contest for his side.##NAJAVA_MECA_7899427##The towering forward had replaced Tito Okello who had an afternoon to forget as he didn’t influence the game as wished and was hence, withdrawn.Before the game-changing moment, both teams had done a pretty decent job in building up play but were let down by poor finishing from the limited chances created.The tactical setup by either coaches whose philosophy is almost the same made the duel interesting as both teams stuck to their usual eye-catching style of play. The progression of the ball, passes and everything that both teams did was impressive but putting the ball into the net proved a challenge. Both coaches introduced fresh legs late into the game, throwing caution to the wind by resting defensive minded players for offensive ones in a bid to break the deadlock. Fortune went in favour of Police after Kinanga plundered home the sole goal that planted smiles on the face of coach Salim Babu who admitted that it was a difficulties in breaching the Posta backline given their tactical approach. “It was a tough game as Posta were tactically superb. They made it difficult for us but I am glad that we won at long last,” said Babu.
